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Werner Erhard Biography

Werner Hans Erhard (born John Paul Rosenberg; September 5, 1935:7) is an American author and lecturer. Erhard is arguably best known for founding "est", which operated from 1971 to 1983.[a] He has written and lectured widely on critical thinking, transformational models and applications, integrity, performance, leadership and individual and organizational transformation.[b][c]

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I didn't arrive at the opportunity to make the world work for everyone by figuring out how to do it!

Arrive, Make, Opportunity, Work, World

Happiness isn't at the end of the rainbow. Happiness is at the beginning of the rainbow. Following the rainbow is happiness, not getting to the end of it.

Beginning, Following, Happiness, Motherhood, Rainbow

Who you know yourself to be” is simply one way of being that is available to you, and you are not stuck with that way of being.

Know, Know Yourself, Stuck, Way, Who You Know

The reaction you got was the communication you intended.

Communication, Intended, Reaction, Reactions

The only two things in our lives are aliveness and patterns that block our aliveness.

Aliveness, Block, Lives, Patterns, Two

We assert that integrity (the condition of being whole and complete) is a necessary condition for workability, and that the resultant level of workability determines the available opportunity for performance. Hence, the way we treat integrity in our model provides an unambiguous and actionable access to superior performance (however one wishes to define performance).

Actionable, Condition, Integrity, Level, Opportunity, Wish

The quickest way to be happy is to choose what you already have.

Already, Choose, Happy, Quickest, Way

For many people, life seems to be a kind of brief candle hardly worth living. But for those who are bold, who are venturesome, who have the humility to deal with what is possible rather than what is predictable, life is an exciting and challenging adventure. Life is no brief candle to me. In a world that can work for everyone, especially in which I can make a difference-that is a life worth living! That is living! That is being alive!

Adventure, Alive, Differences, Humility, Living, Predictable

In life you wind up with one of two things - the results or the reason why you don’t have the results. Results don’t have to be explained. They just are.

Wind, Two, Reason Why, Results, Life

Opportunity: it's not really scarce. It's everywhere. If you really were any good, you'd be overwhelmed by it.

Good, Opportunity, Overwhelmed, Scarce

It is important that you get clear for yourself that your only access to impacting life is action. The world does not care what you intend, how committed you are, how you feel or what you think, and certainly it has no interest in what you want and don't want. Take a look at life as it is lived and see for yourself that the world only moves for you when you act.

Action, Interest, Live Life, Motivational, Moving, World

I could always tell when an organization was in good shape. I could tell because the manager of the organization would always be talking about how great the people in the organization were. If the manager was talking about anything other than how great people in the organization were, I knew that the organization was in bad shape. The way to manage an organization successfully is to manage it in such a way that you can be proud of the people with whom you are working. You have to find a way to interact with the people with whom you are working in a way that makes you proud of them.

Organization, People, Proud, Successfully, Talking

Man keeps looking for a truth that fits his reality. Given our reality, the truth doesn't fit.

Fit, Fits, Looking, Men, Reality

The world is perfect the way it is.

Catholic, Perfect, Way, World

To take a stand for the future is to bring forth an opportunity not borne of the path we've taken in the past, but borne of a vision which we would create for ourselves.

Borne, Opportunity, Past, Stand, Taken, Vision

Health is a function of participation.

Function, Health, Participation

All it takes to make a difference is the courage to stop proving I was right in being unable to make a difference. . . to stop assigning cause for my inability to the circumstances outside of myself and to be willing to have been that way, and to see that the fear of being a failure is a lot less important than the unique opportunity I have to make a difference.

Differences, Inability, Opportunity, Takes, Unique, Way

It is important that you get clear for yourself that your only access to impacting life is action.

Action, Clear, Impacting, Important, Life, Life Is

Your power is a function of velocity, that is to say, your power is a function of the rate at which you translate intention into reality. Most of us disempower ourselves by finding a way to slow, impede, or make more complex than necessary the process of translating intention into reality.

Process, Reality, Translating, Velocity, Way

So long as you do not know who you really are, this will be difficult. You may have to give up a lot of things to which you may be attached. You may have to give up your resentments, your anger, your upset, your annoyance, your desire to punish.

Giving Up, Know, Long, Things, Upset

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